The Voice on the Wire
EustaceHale Ball
9781465525499
pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
WHEN THREE IS A MYSTERY Mr. Shirley is waiting for you in the grill-room, sir. Just step this way, sir, and down the stairs. The large man awkwardly followed the servant to the cosey grill-room on the lower floor of the club house. He felt that every man of the little groups about the Flemish tables must be saying: What’s he doing here? I wish Monty Shirley would meet me once in a while in the back room of a ginmill, where I'd feel comfortable, muttered the unhappy visitor. This joint is too classy. But that’s his game to play— He reached the sought-for one, however, and exclaimed eagerly: By Jiminy, Monty. I'm glad to find you—it would have been my luck after this day, to get here too late
